Truman Capote-based musical in development from Ryan Scott Oliver

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 2/8/23 at 9:55am

https://broadwaynews.com/2023/02/07/truman-capote-based-musical-in-development-from-ryan-scott-oliver/

Award-winning composer-lyricist Ryan Scott Oliver is working on a new musical framed around a notorious event involving Truman Capote. Titled “Party of the Century,” the musical is sourced from the book of the same name by Deborah Davis. 

“It’s based on Truman Capote’s infamous Black and White Ball at the Plaza in 1966 and full of queerness and betrayal and murder — it was kind of crazy,” Oliver told Broadway News at the ceremony celebrating him as the winner of the 2023 Kleban Prize for Most Promising Musical Theatre Lyricist. Oliver has just started writing “Party of the Century” with book writer Kirsten Guenther. The two previously collaborated on the musical “Mrs. Sharp.”

Oliver and Guenther are developing the piece with the support of Fourth Wall Theatricals, which acquired the rights to Davis’ book. According to Oliver, the musical “has a Broadway trajectory.” Fourth Wall, consisting of partners Jana Bezdek and Jen Hoguet, was a part of the producing team for Broadway’s “Jagged Little Pill.”

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 6/27/23 at 11:56am

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a42803683/party-of-the-century-truman-capote-musical/

 

[marytylermoore]

Posted: 6/27/23 at 2:48pm

Michael Cerveris, Josh Gad, or Nathan Lane

Would love to see any of the three take this on! 

[RippedMan]

Posted: 6/27/23 at 3:50pm

Please let it be an actual gay person.

[msmp]

Posted: 6/28/23 at 12:26am

Can't picture anyone other than Nathan Lane for this, tbh.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 6/28/23 at 12:42am

msmp said: "Can't picture anyone other than Nathan Lane for this, tbh."

Like all their other projects, this one will never get produced but I also agree, only Nathan Lane can capture Truman Capote’s spirit. Cerveris and Gad?  Like WTF?!  Do you even know who Truman Capote was?  

[Impeach2017]

Posted: 6/28/23 at 3:27pm

If "The Swans" are not a Greek chorus in this - I ain't going!